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Ringo Starr spotted in bouncing water droplet

03 Nov 2009 James Dacey
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By James Dacey

Apologies.

I realize this is supposed to be a hard-hitting news site reporting physics breakthroughs, but I just couldn’t resist flagging this up.

It was whilst writing a story this afternoon about water-repellency in lotus leaves that I noticed something very strange. Bizarrely, everybody’s favourite mop-topped Liverpudlian seems to reveal himself in the high-speed photo images of water-droplets being ejected from the leaf surface.

Well, it made me laugh anyway…

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